[lamontcg]

It doesn't really matter.

This always bugs me about how people judge politicians and other public figures not by what they've actually done, but some ideal of what is in their "heart of hearts" and their intentions and argue that they've just been constrained by the system they were in or whatever.

Or when judging the actions of nations, people often give all kinds of excuses based on intentions gone wrong (apparently forgetting that whole "road to hell is paved with good intentions" bit).

Intentions don't really matter. Our interface to everyone else is their external actions, that's what you've got to judge them on.

Just say that GPT/LLMs will lie, gaslight and bullshit. It doesn't matter that they don't have an intention to do that, it is just what they do. Worrying about intentions just clouds your judgement.

[kaitai]

Hear hear!

Too much attention on intentions is generally just a means of self-justification and avoiding consequences and, when it comes right down to it, trying to make ourselves feel better for profiting from systems/products/institutions that are doing things that have some objectively bad outcomes.